Major Autumn Auction

Saturday 24. November 2012 at 3 p.m.

170 Lots

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Tekke Ensi
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- 112
- Central Asia, West Turkestan
- 170 x 130 cm
- Late 19th century
- 3,050
Good condition, original finishes all around.
Literature:
ENGELHARDT, EVA, Orientteppiche der Sonderklasse. Sammlerexemplare aus dem alten Rußland. Heidelberg 1990, pl. p. 87
Kerman
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- 114
- South Persia
- 208 x 120 cm
- Second half 19th century
- 6,100
An antique Kerman workshop carpet presenting a garden design drawn in the city’s elegant style. In the yellow-ground field, a repeat of slim blue cypresses has been arranged within a dense network of flowering branches and shrubs, as well as many birds. – Selvedges replaced, both ends minimally reduced. Uniformly low pile.
Literature:
ESKENAZI, JOHN J., L'Arte del Tappeto Orientale. Milan 1983, no. 237
Azeri Kilim
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- 115
- South Caucasus, Karabagh region
- 248 x 216 cm
- Ca. 1900
- 1,952
A large single-panel Azeri kilim decorated in a repeat of hexagons containing spider designs (hooked diamonds) as well as smaller diamonds enclosing serrated diamonds. A narrow border of reciprocal trefoils. – Good condition.
Turkish Bokce
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- 118
- North West Anatolia or West Anatolia
- 120 x 120 cm
- Ca. 1700
- 9,760
An Ottoman silk embroidery on a finely woven linen ground. Known as bokce, such square textiles were widely used in the Ottoman Empire. The precious cloths served various purposes, for instance as wraps for the turban when it was taken off in the home. The example offered here shows a delicate design of four light brown twigs placed in the corners of the field and decorated with semi-circular red poppy blossoms, azure carnations, hyazinths and small flowers. Judging by its elegant style of drawing and subtle palette, the piece dates from ca. 1700. The perfection of drawing and quality of the embroidery are captivating. – One missing area has been backed with fabric and is barely visible, very good overall condition.
Bokhara Suzani
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- 119
- Central Asia, Uzbekistan
- 161 x 121 cm
- Mid 19th century
- 7,320
A classic Bokhara silk embroidery in the nim format composed of four panels, simultaneously embroidered by women in a family who worked to a pattern drawn on the foundation before the panels were joined. Differences in quality cannot be detected in the individual panels of this item; evidently all the embroiderers mastered their craft with equal perfection. Composed of green diagonal twigs, the diamond lattice in the field is filled with a variety of flowers; the border contains a sweeping vine that undulates around large circular blossoms. – The Suzani has been mounted and framed; the outer edge has been folded back, but has survived undamaged.
Kuba Sumakh
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- 120
- East Caucasus
- 326 x 197 cm
- Second half 19th century
- 14,640
In this large, red-ground sumakh, three huge Crivelli stars have been placed in octagonal compartments that are interspersed with horizontal dividing bars decorated with triangles at the ends. The border contains eight-pointed stars within octagonal surrounds. – Good condition, original finishes all around.
Literature:
THOMPSON, JON, Carpet Magic. The art of carpets from the tents, cottages and workshops of Asia. London 1983, pl. p. 18
Yomut Asmalyk
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- 122
- Central Asia, West Turkestan
- 67 x 121 cm
- Mid 19th century
- 3,172
An antique Yomut asmalyk of outstanding quality, finely woven in rich, glowing colours and a design of balanced proportions. Formerly in the Bechirian Collection, Paris. – Only minimal signs of age, very good overall condition, original finishes all around.
Chodor Main Carpet
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- 123
- Central Asia, West Turkestan
- 298 x 207 cm
- Mid 19th century
- 9,760
A Chodor main carpet of outstanding quality, more finely knotted than usual in excellent colours and velvety pile wool. The repeat of two types of diamond-shaped ertmen güls appears highly colourful as the güls display four colour variations in the composition: vertical rows of white and blue güls alternate with rows of blue and green güls. – Several repaired areas, full pile preserved, original finishes all around, including the wide kilim ends which have been backed with fabric.
Literature:
AZADI, SIAWOSCH, Turkoman Carpets And The Ethnographic Significance Of Their Ornaments. Fishguard 1975, no. 12 *** LOGES, WERNER, Turkmenische Teppiche. Munich 1978, no. 64
Chasuble and Stole
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- 125
- South Germany
- 101 x 63 cm
- Third quarter 19th century
- 537
A silk damask embroidered in gold-wrapped thread and decorated with borders of gold brocade. The red “fiddleback” chasuble shows neo-Gothic tracery of the kind seen in church windows. The orphrey band and orphrey cross are edged in a wide gold trim in which the golden tracery is repeated. The centre of the orphrey cross is resplendent with a haloed golden chalice. – Its extraordinarily sober use of neo-Gothic designs dates this chasuble to the third quarter of the 19th century, when church buildings were widely constructed in the same style.
Sample Book
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- 128
- Japan, Kyoto
- 41 x 26,5 cm
- Mid 19th century
- 824
A fragment of a sample book (te-hon-gire) for kimono fabrics. Sixteen plates and one cover bound in fabric have survived, presenting 76 fabric samples of the same quality as the following lot. Regrettably, the condition is not as good, and the colours have lost some of their freshness due to moisture. In its complete form, the sample book was an even more lavish product including features such as gold embossing. Provenance: Karl Friedrich Graf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin (1896-1988), who worked in the German diplomatic service in Japan from 1937 to 1945